I've had an odd week. Due to life gremlins everything has taken twice as long as it should've done. On another note, my usually dependable teeth have decided to revolt. My teeth according to the dentist are great, except for that pesky upper right wisdom tooth that has started to decay. Wisdom tooth pain ain't clever.
Enough about my oral complications. I made these things happen today.
broken syntax, oil on canvas
generation chiaroscuro, oil on canvas, 9" x 9"
Being Monday and all I've had about a 1 hour to do work. Here are my two 30 min studies. Both are about 7" x 10" and are oil on canvas paper.
I've been watching with mild jealousy, my Instagram and Facebook feed. Recently the Flux exhibition happened in London, and it's been filling my feeds. I wish I could have attended, I wish my art was there. I wish. I wish. I wish. Wish are just signposts to action.
I enjoy my job. Painting and having fun. I need to build more skills and refine my technical abilities, which means I feel I need to put most ofthe fun to one side and crack on with 'work'. Work in this sense is doing the type of painting that will advance my skills and doing that regularly. Daily. I have obstacles, like everyone else, but I also have advantages others lack.
I'm being very vauge. (I feel vauge.) I'm setting off on a year(ish) long plan of creating portraits and figure studies. My natural tendency is to rush head long into all my tangential ideas. But I need to be strict and develop my skills in handling realism. I'm going to still play with the generative, glitch and abstract ideas, that's what keeps me having fun. But I need to focus to bring myself up to scratch.
The images below are from the first few days of this.
untitled self glitch
Your uniformity does not impress me. Oil on board. 9" x9".
All I ever wanted. Oil on canvas paper. 10" x 14".
Only managed to log 2hrs in the deathtrap cave o paint. Currently that is not unusual. I'd love to get in there later and paint up a storm, but after getting, the kids in bed I'll be running low on motivation.
Anyway I worked on 4 things today. 2 small finished pieces and 2 work in progress.
Ch-ch- check 'em out (turn table scratch) wikiy- wa-wa!
self portrait without a clever title, oil on canvas paper, 10" x 10"
I had a naff price of work that I painted this on top of. I believe I have improved it.
abstracted and blue, oil on cardboard, 9"x 14" (or something)
Abstracted this from a selfish I want to use again. Nice as a study I guess.
MMoL (working title) 90 cm x 60 cm, oil on canvas
As you can see I'm consistent with my units of measurement. A work in progress that I'm enjoying.
Pretty much done with this just some little tweaks here and there and bingo.
